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15-16 November, Amsterdam

Passenger Terminal Amsterdam

#YASC2017

Event Guide

Energised for Tomorrow

As the pace of technology quickens, we’re focused on the future, supporting your needs today and creating solutions for the challenges of tomorrow. YASC is an important part of our commitment

to your continued success. Thank you for joining us and sharing our excitement as

we move forward together.

Welcome to YASC Europe

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Conference Overview

Wednesday 15th November

07:45 Registration Opens

08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast and Registration

09:00 – 10:00 Opening Session (Amsterdam)

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 – 12:30 Classroom Sessions

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch




18:15 – 19:30 Drinks Reception (Main Deck)

19:30 – 21:00 Dinner and Entertainment (Amsterdam)

21:00 – 00:00 Evening Entertainment (Panorama Deck)

Tuesday 14th November

17:00 –19:00 Registration

Thursday 16th November


08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast and Networking




12:30 – 13:30 Lunch




17:00 – 18:00 Closing Session and Drinks (Main Deck)

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White:Yardi Staff

Red:Consultant

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PEER ROUNDTABLESBenefit from the knowledge and insight of your industry peers also using Yardi solutions. A series of roundtable discussions will aim to provide Yardi clients an opportunity to discuss issues and share experiences.

PERSONALISED EXPERT ADVICEThere are networking opportunities for one-on-one discussions with Yardi’s product experts.

Considering making the switch to Voyager 7S? Let your sales rep walk you through the steps you’ll take to move to our most advanced property management platform. Already have Voyager 7S? You’ll probably be interested in the various add-on modules that expand the Voyager feature set to support requirements right across your business.

ADVANCED SOLUTIONS LABTake advantage of a trip to the advanced solution lab located in the reception area outside the class sessions. If you have a specific question that you need to ask, the Lab staff will be able to offer you all the advice you need. Lab times are highlighted in the conference agenda.

Conference Highlights

Contents

5 Venue Floor Plan

33 Your YASC Team12 Class Overviews – Wednesday

9 Timetable at a Glance

21 Class Overviews – Thursday

30 YASC Social

CLASS FORMATMake sure you register for your classes using the YASC app to ensure you get the most value for your time and money. We have classroom sessions, peer roundtables, and panel discussions to give you the information you need to keep your skills and your business at the cutting edge.

THE YASC APP! The YASC app is designed to optimize the YASC experience for our attendees. Use it to view course descriptions, complete your session evaluations, and view or change your class selections — you can even monitor YASC social feeds during the conference! Registered attendees will receive a unique login to manage conference resources on the go from any Apple or Android mobile device.

NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIESMake valuable connections with your industry peers from around Europe — as well as with Yardi staff and consultants — during both days, Receptions, Gala Dinner, or one of the Breakfasts, Lunches, or Coffee Breaks.

Venue Floor Plan

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The Venue

Passenger Terminal AmsterdamThis year, YASC Europe has moved to the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam (PTA). Still serving as a docking terminal for world-wide cruise ships, the PTA is just a 10-minute walk from Amsterdam Centraal, boasting spectacular views over the IJ harbour.

Getting to the PTA The PTA is located at Piet Heinkade 27, 1019 BR Amsterdam, which is connected to the Mövenpick Hotel. If you are travelling by train, Amsterdam Centraal is the closest station, just a 10-minute walk away. If you’re coming by car, the PTA offers over 1000+ car parking spaces, with an estimated daily cost of €47.50.

YASC at the PTAUnder the PTA’s distinctive undulating roof, which symbolises the connection between land and water, YASC Europe will be spread across all four levels. You can register for YASC upon entering the venue on the Lower Deck. All breakout sessions, coffee breaks, breakfasts, lunches, the gala dinner and drinks receptions will be on the ‘Main Deck’. The after party will take place on the highest level, the ‘Panorama Deck’.

On Arrival Guests can either register on Tuesday 14th between 17:00 – 19:00 or on Wednesday 15th November between 07:45 – 09:00 on the Lower Deck. On Wednesday, after registration, head straight to Main Deck for breakfast, before finding your seat in ‘Amsterdam’, the plenary session area on the Main Deck.

YASC

Amsterdam Centraal

Venue Floor Plan

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Venue – Lower Deck & Main Deck

YASC Area

Classrooms

Meeting Room

Presenter Room

Project Team room

Welcome Desk

Info Desk

The Lab

Cloakroom

Charging Station

Stairs

Lifts

Toilets

Coffee Bar

Lunch Area

Berlin

Paris

Istanbul Luxembourg

Singapore

Dubai

Cairo

Hanoi

Hamburg

Lower Deck

Amsterdam

Lounge Area

London

Venue Floor Plan

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Venue – Promenade Deck

YASC Area

Stairs

Lifts

Toilets

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YASC this year.

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Venue Floor Plan

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Venue – Panorama Deck

YASC Area

Stairs

Lifts

Y A S C 2 0 1 7A F T E R P A R T YWednesday 15th

Timetable at a Glance

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Wednesday 15th November


08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast and Registration

09:00 – 10:00 Opening Session


Classroom Sessions

IMS classes are available throughout the day on Wednesday – see page 16 for details

Session 110:15 – 11:15

Commercial & Investment Management Roadmap

Basics of Database Schema

Managing Debt as Liability

RENTCafé Property Marketing

IM – Calculator Analytics

Session 2 11:30 – 12:30

Core System Analytic Reporting Options

Scripted Reports

Commercial LeasingPad Basics

Yardi Maintenance

Client Central Essentials

New features in Voyager 7S

Trends in Technology

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

Session 3 13:30 – 14:30 VENDORCafé

Custom Financial Analytics

Budgeting & Forecasting Overview

FX – Setting up Revaluation and Translation

3rd party Consultants Roundtable

Overview of General Accounting Features

Report Runner

Session 4 14:45 – 15:45

Yardi Spreadsheet Reporting (YSR) technical session

Concierge InvestorPlus IM – Batch Allocations

Pan-European Implementation Approach Roundtable

Advanced Service Charges

Commercial LeasingPad Advanced


Session 5 16:00 – 17:00

Fund Structures and Financial Consolidations

Reporting Tools – Which One, When, Why?

Overview Main Uses of Job Cost Module

Introduction to Deal Manager

International Residential Prospect Guest Card & Leasing Workflow

PAYscan ETL2

Session 6 17:15 – 18:15 Bank Book

ABF – Introduction to Valuations

Straight Line Rent

Acquisitions, Sales & Changing Ownership

Roundtable Discussion – Release Management

Orion BI User Session

PAYscan Tips and Tricks

18:15 – 19:30 Drinks Reception 19:30 – 21:00 Dinner and

Entertainment 21:00 – 00:00 Evening Entertainment


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Thursday 16th November


08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast and Networking

Classroom Sessions

Session 7 09:00 – 10:00

Advanced Service Charges

Correspondence for Advanced Users

Advanced Job Cost Features Security

Managing Retail in Voyager

Fund Structures and Financial Consolidations

P2P Workflows and Notifications


Session 8 10:15 – 11:15

First Line Helpdesk Services

Yardi Spreadsheet Reporting (YSR) Technical Session

Importing Bank Statements, and other Banking Interfaces

InvestorPlus COMMERCIAL Café

PAYScan Tips and Tricks

ABF User Group

Session 9 11:30 – 12:30

Advanced Commercial Functionality

GL Allocations

Lessee Accounting: ASC 842 & IFRS 16 Accounting Standards

Document Management for Sharepoint

RENTCafé Resident Services-Core Functions

Core System Analytic Reporting Options

User Group and Country Compliance Update

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

Session 10 13:30 – 14:30

Introduction to Service Charges

SSRSIM – Performance Reporting

Advanced Maintenance Overview

Advanced Budgeting – Reforecasting

Bank Book Orion BI User Group

Session 11 14:45 – 15:45

Cloud Services Overview

Advanced Database Schema

Month End Processing Account Trees Lease

Renewals

Corporate Accounting Functionality

eLearning


Session 12 16:00 – 17:00

Orion BI Technical Session

Inspections

Investment Accounting – Capital Calls and YSR Notices

Fixed AssetsAutomated Tasks & Notifications

Budgeting & Forecasting Overview

Overview of General Accounting Features

17:00 – 18:00 Closing Session and Drinks


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IMS Classes – Wednesday 15th

At this year’s YASC in Amsterdam we are pleased to offer a special selection of courses specifically designed for our clients that use iMS software.

There are four courses at YASC which will be held in our "Luxembourg" meeting room on Wednesday, the sessions are as follows:

We look forward to seeing iMS software clients at these sessions.

Note: Separate registration is not required for these classes.

11:30 - 12:30: iMS – Lease Management (German language) This course will take you through the key components of iMS lease management. This course will cover setup options and lease processing. 13:30 - 14:30:iMS – Service Charges (German language) This course gives an overview of efficient Service Charge processing with the iMS Service Charge module. We will provide an overview of the key components needed to setup for service charges in iMS.

14:45 - 15:45:Converting from iMS to Voyager Review of the options available to support migration from iMS to Voyager. Items to consider include, resources required, time taken, and the new database that results from the conversion process.

16:00 - 17:00:iMS Clients - Roundtable Discussion (German language) This session will include the presentation of recently added features and include an interactive discussion with our team.

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Class Overviews – Wednesday

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Class Overviews: Wednesday 15th

Session 1 – 10:15 – 11:15

Commercial & Investment Management Roadmap (CM050)

Join this course to learn about the Yardi Commercial Suite, which is designed to help reduce business cycle times and drive workforce efficiency. This course provides a brief introduction to Yardi Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting, Commercial LeasingPad, Orion Business Intelligence, COMMERCIALCafé and Procure to Pay. We will also discuss the product roadmap for Investment Management, which includes InvestorPlus and Investor Portal.

Basics of Database Schema (RE111)

Do you want to learn more about the Yardi database structure but don't know where to begin? Attend this course, which introduces you to the Yardi database tables. This knowledge is also helpful for database maintenance and troubleshooting database related issues.

Managing Debt as Liability (AC265)

Learn how to use the Mortgage AP module to organize, manage, and report on external and intercompany loans. Calculate amortisation schedules, accrue and pay interest, attach loan documents and view overdue payments.

RENTCafé Property Marketing (EW250)

RENTCafé Portal offers a wide range of property marketing features including SEO tools, social media integration (including Facebook apps), marketing site customizations, and reputation management. This course is intended for savvy marketers who want to learn about these and other advanced options for their online marketing presence.

IM – Calculator Analytics (MA250)

In this session we will look at using calculator analytics with performance tables to store financial metrics at period end and how that enables historic and comparison reporting.


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Session 2 – 11:30 – 12:30

Core System Analytic Reporting Options (RE070)

This course provides business users and overview of the Core Analytics and Reporting Options available in the system. You will discover how smart configuration and filtering options assist you in widening your reporting options without the need to create customised reporting.

Scripted Reports (RE505)

This intermediate course will expand your SQL knowledge and how to perform data-mining with Yardi's SQL scripting functions. Creating SQL Scripted reports is the easiest way to achieve quick, presentable reports and results using Voyager’s scripting engine. The course is intended to present the specifics of this reporting tool, and exemplify the possibilities it offers and its limitations.

Commercial LeasingPad Basics (CM171)

Yardi Commercial LeasingPad centralises valuable customer and contact information in a single, global database. This course will review how to leverage the strengths of a browser-based platform designed for the tablet, and will provide real-time access to all activities related to all of your customer and leasing pipeline data. We will demonstrate how Commercial LeasingPad automates the leasing process from lead generation to lease execution by capturing the relevant data through each step of the process.

Yardi Maintenance (MM120)

This course covers how to use Voyager Maintenance to manage your maintenance tasks, staff, and materials. Topics include basic work order capabilities and workflow, managing tasks, setting up and using the Maintenance Mobile App, tracking labour, and posting transactions to the general ledger.



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Client Central Essentials (TE170)

Client Central has long been a useful resource for clients to access training and technical information. This class is your opportunity to learn about our recent updates to the Client Central system. Learn how to access our extensive online Knowledge Base, including product documentation, training videos, and other resources. Find out how to create and monitor Yardi support cases and trouble requests (TRs), and manage your Yardi Cloud environment - from accessing performance statistics to implementing Cloud requests and approvals. We'll also discuss how to administer your Client Central groups, users, and permissions.

New Features in Voyager 7S (AC201)

This course will give an overview of recent enhancements added to Yardi Voyager 7S.

Trends in Technology (TE200)

Internet Of Things, Big Data Revolution, Social Media Revolution, Artificial Intelligence and Robots are current key trends technology. Yardi will outline a vision of how this will impact the Real Estate industry and provide an open forum to discuss some of the key issues.



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Session 3 – 13:30 – 14:30

VENDORCafé (EP070)

This course provides an overview of Yardi's newest solution focused on helping our clients manage their important relationships with vendors. VENDORCafé is an add-on to Yardi's Procure to Pay solution and provides a portal capability that allows vendors to submit W-9s, COIs, and other documents required for vendor operations, as well as to submit invoices. The vendor on-boarding process is supported by automatic loading of vendor information to Voyager. From an invoice processing perspective, the portal will allow the vendor to submit invoices to the client for payment, view invoice approval status, and gain insight to payment information.

Custom Financial Analytics (RE170)

This course is an introduction to Yardi's custom analytics and provides information on how to create your own financial analytic-type custom financials. Learn how to create Account Tree and Property Comparison templates using either standard or custom account trees. We will cover topics such as how to compare financial data from prior periods to the current period, and how to compare similar data across multiple properties.

Budgeting & Forecasting Overview (MB120)

This class will include a high level overview of Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting. We will walk through common budgeting processes as well as discussing best practices. Topics will include an overview of how to manipulate your commercial revenue forecast, functions to help you gain efficiencies in forecasting expenses, features that will help you pull mortgage and job information into your budget, and will wrap up with some common reports. Note: this course is specific to the Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting, and does not apply to the Budgeting & Forecasting.

FX – Setting up Revaluation and Translation (AC350)

Learn how to handle key currency conversions during the month-end closing of a single entity or within a consolidation. The revaluation function will cover the ability to update the base currency position at month end for non-base currency balance sheet items. The multi-currency translation function covers conversion from entity base currency to a different consolidation or reporting currency.



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Session 4 – 14:45 – 15:45

Yardi Spreadsheet Reporting Technical Session (RE540)

Yardi Spreadsheet Reporting (YSR) is a Voyager and VoyagerPlus report rendering technology that enables advanced designers to create report packets of individual documents designed in Excel or Word. This class will offer a step-through of how to create your first YSR report, an overview of the setup techniques for YSR and how to establish runtime filters and map those into the component individual reports. The class also covers how to draw data from both Yardi SQL scripts and from the analytic engines of conforming verticals.

3rd Party Consultants Roundtable (RT070)

Attendance for this roundtable session is restricted to 3rd party consultants or Yardi freelance partners, and as such is not open to clients. Discussions will focus on how Yardi and their partners can make further improvement in how we work together.

Overview of General Accounting Features (AC101)

This course is an overview of the financial features that are available in Voyager. After a brief presentation that covers these options, we will open the course to a question and answer session that is focussed on helping users streamline financial operations.

Report Runner (TE240)

This course provides an overview of Report Runner, a back-end report server that replaces Yardi Conductor. Using Microsoft .NET functionality, it runs as a Windows service and offers improved performance over previous report-server versions. Learn how to configure, set up, and operate this utility, including server requirements, reports email processing, exporting reports to Excel and PDF files, batch reports processing, and scheduled analytics reporting.



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Concierge (MR110)

Join us to learn about Yardi Concierge, a tablet-optimised module that is becoming increasingly popular. Learn how these features can assist you with guest relations, delivery notifications, guest authorisations, key authorisations, incident reporting, resident away notifications, and the reservation system.

InvestorPlus (MA030)

Whether you're managing fund performance, responding to client inquiries and RPF's, raising capital, or tracking acquisitions, InvestorPlus has something for you. This introductory course will demonstrate how to splice and dice data with user-configurable business intelligence dashboards, initiate correspondence to existing investors and leads, view the funding status of new investment opportunities, advance deal statuses, and much more.

IM – Batch Allocations (MA360)

This course covers how to setup and use batch allocations in Voyager in order to track cash and non-cash movements within the portfolio. We will cover the various components of setup and demonstrate examples of how to manage cash inflows and outflows, revaluations as well as the reporting available within the system.

Pan-European Implementation Approach Roundtable (RT221)

In this roundtable, clients discuss how their Pan-European organisations managed their Voyager implementations. Attend this course to hear the lessons they learned during the process, and to share your implementation experiences.

Advanced Service Charges (CM360)

This course will cover the use and setup of Estate Service Charges, GL Service Charge Periodic Budgeting and Period End.

Commercial Leasing Pad Advanced (CM371)

This course will review how to configure the system to match your leasing process by utilizing deal templates, Voyager workflows and YSR reporting. In addition, we will use these tools to demonstrate the entire leasing process from lead to lease.



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Session 5 – 16:00 – 17:00

Fund Structures and Financial Consolidations (MA330)

Learn how to approach setting up Fund Structures in Voyager and how to handle Financial Consolidations. We will demonstrate the key components required for setup, with the various process steps for performing consolidations.

Reporting Tools – Which One, When, Why? (RE050)

This class is a Q&A overview session with Yardi technical staff about the various reporting options available in Voyager. We will cover everything from simple Yardi SQL scripting to high-end presentations available when using Yardi Orion Business Intelligence. You'll also learn of the degree of customisation possible with Voyager analytics, SSRS, ad hoc tools and the well adopted, Excel rendering, Yardi Spreadsheet Reporting. We'll help you make sense of the Voyager reporting options and guide you to the YASC courses you should attend, thus empowering you to make savvy technology reporting decisions.

Overview Main Uses of Job Cost Module (MC101)

The construction overview course covers all the main areas of job cost, from general setup to creating job cost payables.

Introduction to Deal Manager (CM063)

Yardi Deal Manager centralizes deal entry, tracking, and approvals in one simple-to-use solution for brokers and asset managers. Ideal for office and industrial clients, Deal Manager significantly improves the workflow of internal and external brokers, while providing enhanced deal pipeline visibility to asset managers. This class will explore the solution's features and the benefits it can provide.

International Residential Prospect Guest Card & Leasing Workflow (RM116)

Want to save time and increase productivity by streamlining your leasing process? Examine the intricacies of Guest Card, Leasing Workflow, and Applicant Screening and how these components affect your occupancy.



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Session 6 – 17:15 – 18:15

Bank Book (AC135)

Bank Book in Voyager records all transactions in a bank statement with a single entry process and includes payments, receipts and other bank transactions. As well as processing transactions, bank book also has built-in bank reconciliation functions and tie-out reports. This course will also cover how advanced features deal with more difficult transactions like reversals, credits, unknown receipts and how to apply those at a later stage.

ABF – Introduction to Valuations (MB210)

This course will introduce you to Valuations; a powerful calculator used by asset managers and REITs to help you determine present values and IRRs of individual assets using a discounted cash flow model. We will also cover key reports for managing analyses, manual revenue/expense entry, and how to apply market assumptions like simple cap rate entry and general vacancy.

PAYscan (EP150)

Yardi PAYscan delivers consistent policies, eliminates the physical movement of paper, and facilitates electronic invoicing. Come and see the full transaction lifecycle – from converting your paper invoices into electronic invoices, to approving and posting them, to payable invoices. Learn about dashboards and how to track, monitor and approve your invoices on the device of your choice using Voyager, our PAYscan app, or our newly mobile-enabled Procure to Pay software.

ETL2 (TE320)

This course will take you through the key components required to secure the correct configuration of our Extract Transform and Load functionality. The class also covers exporting and importing the various data objects.



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Straight Line Rent (CM250)

Learn how to implement FASB 13 and automate straight-lining of rents in Voyager's Commercial module. This course will cover features associated with basic configuration, calculation of amortization schedule, journal entries, and reporting. Topics include best practices for scenarios such as setting up a lease that has been straight-lined in another system, early renewals, early terminations, retroactive amendments, and optional parameters for custom requirements.

Acquisitions, Sales & Changing Ownership (CM370)

Learn how Voyager supports you in managing the acquisition and sale of properties and changing ownership. Discover how the General Ledger, Commercial, Payscan, Investment Management and Job Cost modules assists with the various components of this process.

Roundtable Discussion – Release Management (RT130)

In this roundtable, Yardi will provide an update on general release management and best practice relating to how clients should plan their updates. After this presentation clients can discuss how their organizations managed their version updates. Attend this course to hear the lessons they learned during the process, and share your implementation experiences.

Orion BI User Session (CM240)

Discover how Orion Business Intelligence provides a browser-based business intelligence platform to report on your entire portfolio. This course will introduce the Orion BI platform built from your Voyager database, and review tools such as SQL Server Reporting Services and SQL Server Analysis Services. Topics covered include: interactive and configurable dashboards that show key performance indicators, history, trending, and the use of Excel to create your own custom Business Intelligence reports.

Yardi PAYscan Tips and Tricks (EP320)

Want to become a Yardi PAYscan power administrator? We will teach you methods that unlock the power of Yardi PAYscan and increase your AP department's efficiency. Learn how to effectively troubleshoot any challenge that your staff will encounter. Explore the latest options in AP configuration that can maximise Yardi PAYscan's effectiveness. Learn about custom reports, stored procedures and pre-compilation validation. This class is designed for more technical attendees interested in learning valuable PAYscan functionality. We will also cover new P2P mobile capabilities that enable you to review, edit, and approve invoices "on the go" using the device of your choice.


Class Overviews – Thursday

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Session 7 – 09:00 – 10:00

Advanced Service Charges (CF360)

This course will cover the use and setup of Estate Service Charges, GL Service Charge Period Budgeting and Period End.

Correspondence for Advanced Users (RE380)

This course will guide you through correspondence set-up. How to create your own custom correspondence report in Yardi Voyager, set-up and customize your template, guidelines on how to add and develop custom tokens and special tokens that can be used in your template.

Advanced Job Cost Features (MC310)

The advance construction course covers a variety of topics including workflow’s, capex, master job allocation and forecasting.

Security (TE130)

Learn the basics of Voyager menu editor and security. This course covers how to protect and restrict access to data by dividing your Voyager users into security groups, with each security group having a customisable menu set associated with it. Attend this course to learn how to set up security groups, individual users, user access, menu sets, and permissions.

Managing Retail in Voyager (CM155)

This course will cover all the key components of Managing Retail Properties in Voyager. This includes the various turnover rent calculations and additional report options that specifically cater for retail properties.

Class Overviews: Thursday 16th


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Session 8 – 10:15 – 11:15

First Line Help Desk Services (TE030)

Have you ever wondered if an outsourced model for Voyager first line support is the right decision your organization? Discover Yardi Help Desk and learn how this solution can improve your organization’s efficiency and effectiveness well as mitigate risk. We’ll walk through how the Help Desk solution is implemented, tailored and integrated into your organization to provide a seamless support structure for your users. Also hear what other clients have to say about using this service.

Yardi Spreadsheet Reporting (YSR) Technical Session (RE540)

Yardi Spreadsheet Reporting (YSR) is a Voyager and VoyagerPlus report rendering technology that enables advanced designers to create report packets of individual documents designed in Excel or Word. This class will offer a walk through of how to create your first YSR report; an overview of the setup techniques for YSR, including how to establish runtime filters and map those into the component individual reports; and how to draw data from both Yardi SQL scripts and from the analytic engines of conforming verticals.

Fund Structures and Financial Consolidations (MA330)

This session covers how to set up Fund Structures in Voyager and how to process Financial Consolidations. We will cover the key components that structure setup requires and demonstrate the steps and processes required to complete the consolidations.

P2P Workflows and Notifications (EP250)

Experience the full power of Voyager 7S workflows. This course explores the many versatile workflow options available and covers workflow basics, advanced workflow features, the workflow dashboard, workflow reports, workflow utilities, email templates, and notifications. This class will be taught in Voyager 7S and is appropriate for clients using PAYscan.



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Importing Bank Statements, and other Banking Interfaces (AC132)

This course provides an overview of the functionality available within Banking Interfaces, including AP payment files (payment of vendors), AR direct debit files (taking money out of tenant's accounts) and importing complete bank statements. This includes setting up regular expressions to be able to increase the percentage of bank statement lines which will auto post.

InvestorPlus (MA030)

Whether you're managing fund performance, responding to client inquiries and RPF's, raising capital, or tracking acquisitions, InvestorPlus has something for you. This introductory course will demonstrate how to splice and dice data with user-configurable business intelligence dashboards, initiate correspondence to existing investors and leads, view the funding status of new investment opportunities, advance deal statuses, and much more.

COMMERCIALCafé (CM140)

COMMERCIALCafé is your company's online marketing presence for tenants and prospects. Provide greater visibility of available leases and promote properties for sale, while integrating corporate brand identity and messaging. Additionally, provide tenants with best-in-class services through access to online payments, tenant statements, maintenance requests , and other service offerings. Listings available on COMMERCIALCafé include all real estate property categories such as commercial office space for lease and for sale, hotels and motels, retail space, and land for sale.

PAYScan Tips and Tricks (EP320)

If you are a PAYscan administrator, attend this session to learn tips and tricks to increase your AP department's efficiency. We will cover short cuts to move items through the approval workflows more quickly, accomplish tasks with fewer mouse clicks, and set up configurations that will help the program better anticipate your users choices.

ABF User Group (ABFFG)

This session will have two main components. Listen to your industry peers as they discuss company best practices, implementations, and use of Yardi Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting. In addition this is an interactive session where you can help influence future product development. Attendance is limited to clients currently using the Yardi Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting product.



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Session 9 – 11:30 – 12:30

Advanced Commercial Functionality (CM320)

Discover advanced commercial features available in Yardi Voyager. This class covers topics like gross Potential Rent, Process Renewal Options, Mass Lease Activation, Bulk Lease Expiry, Lease Maintenance and Amendment Workflow.

GL Allocations (AC320)

Learn how to use the general ledger tool in Voyager to increase your efficiency when allocating income and expenses from source properties/entities to multiple target properties/entities. Discover how Voyager automatically calculates and splits allocations, and creates journal entries based on the percentages that the user specifies.

Lessee Accounting: ASC 842 & IFRS 16 Accounting Standards (CM360)

This course will cover the use and setup of Estate Service Charges, GL Service Charge Period Budgeting and Period End.

Document Management for Sharepoint (TE060)

Orion Document Management provides your company with the ability organise, control versions, store, and secure documents related to company departments or Voyager records such as properties, residents, tenants, jobs, etc. Use full text search to easily find documents based on the name of the document or the text within the document, and publish documents such as tenant correspondence directly into the document management library.

RENTCafé Resident Services-Core Functions (EW260)

Learn how to maximize resident retention through RENTCafé Resident Services. Course attendees will receive an overview of payment settings including text-to-pay, maintenance requests, lease renewal, concierge features, page narratives, tooltips, and much more.



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Session 10 – 13:30 – 14:30

Introduction to Service Charges (CM160)

This course gives an introduction to the European Service Charge module. We will provide an overview of the key components needed to setup for service charges in Voyager.

SSRS (RE580)

This course is an introduction to Yardi report writing using RDLC reports. We will cover the basics of the SSRS application, including the easy use of Yardi scripts to create new reports or customise existing ones. This course will focus on modifying Yardi scripts to interface with SSRS reports. Knowledge of Yardi scripting, as well as basic SQL, is assumed. Some examples of modifications are grouping, totaling, and additional formatting.

IM – Performance Reporting (MA315)

This course will focus on calculating and storing investor/investment returns in our IMKPI tables using capital transaction records from IM. We will cover returns in investor or investment currency and review how to calculate and store the various attributions (composites) required by your firm or your clients. The course will review GIPS methodology as well as creating your own investor/investment return calculations.

Core System Analytic Reporting Options (RE070)

This course will give an overview to business users of the Core Analytics and Reporting Options available in the system. It will cover how smart configuration and the filtering options can assist you in widening your reporting options without the need to create customised reporting.

User Group and Country Compliance Update (RT065)

Learn more about our various Country User Groups, their current key focus and recent achievements. In addition, find out about Yardi's focus on local compliance in the various countries and what information is available to assist you with your compliance process.



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Session 11 – 14:45 – 15:45

Cloud Services Overview (TE020)

Join members of Yardi's Cloud Services team to learn how we're enhancing the Yardi Cloud. We will discuss staffing and service improvements as well as advances in hardware, monitoring, and management tools.

Advanced Maintenance Overview (MM320)

Learn about using Advanced Maintenance, which integrates all of Yardi's facilities products and includes planned preventative maintenance, Yardi Facilities Manager, and Maintenance Manager Mobile.

Advanced Budgeting – Reforecasting (MB240)

This course covers the functionality that helps you in the reforecasting process. We will review various features that allow you to move data into your budget or valuation, as well as best-practice recommendations. We will also review some of the more advanced features of Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting such as rollups, GL allocations, cash budgeting, functions groups, debt, and jobs.

Bank Book (AC135)

The Bank Book in Voyager records all transactions of a bank statement in a single entry process; this includes payments, receipts and other bank transactions. As well as processing the transactions, bank book also has in-built bank reconciliation functions and tie-out reports. Advanced features also deal with more difficult transactions like reversals, credits, un-known receipts. How to apply those are covered at a later stage.

Orion BI User Group (RT320)

Listen to a panel of clients discuss their experiences with Orion Business Intelligence. You'll learn new tips and tricks developed by Yardi experts and your peers, and have the opportunity to ask questions of the panel participants.



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Advanced Database Schema (RE610)

This advanced course examines the complex relationship between transactional tables, discovering how transactions are stored in the back-end and how the tables connect to each other. This course will also provide information about writing detail-level financial reports.

Month End Processing (AC220)

Learn all aspects of executing a month end closing process in Voyager. This course will cover all functions that need to be completed prior to being able to close a period, including periodic accrial and prepayment functions.

Account Trees (AC210)

Account trees are powerful financial reporting tools that enable you to determine the format and description of your GL accounts at run time. Discover how this feature can save you time by streamlining and customising your report writing processes.

Lease Renewals (RM225)

Voyager includes a number of functions that aid the time-consuming and important process of lease renewals. Topics in the course include lease proposal batches, lease expirations from the dashboard, bulk approvals, letters, processing renewals, scheduled renewals, and simple renewals.

Corporate Accounting Functionality (AC280)

Learn how to use Voyager to manage your corporate accounts. Intercompany billing, allocation of overheads and importing salaries and expenses.

eLearning (EL040)

Deliver strategic and on-demand training while reducing your administrative drag. With Yardi eLearning, your company can design and implement a comprehensive training program that combines live event management and self-paced training in a platform that integrates with your helpdesk software, virtual meeting spaces, HRIS, and company identity database. Take advantage of Yardi's catalogue of over 400 customisable courses that will help you implement, upgrade, and standardise your software and soft skills training. Join us for a tour of Yardi's eLearning University.



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Session 12 – 16:00 – 17:00

Orion BI Technical Session (CM341)

Discover how Yardi Orion Business Intelligence can be tailored to deliver the specific metrics you need to track to help improve and grow your business. Learn how to integrate custom data into Orion Business Intelligence, build custom metrics, and explore other customisation techniques through specific examples for the commercial market. We will walk you through how to identify business needs, define necessary metrics, and build solutions using the toolset within Orion Business Intelligence.

Inspections (MI110)

Yardi Inspection is a flexible tool for scheduling and managing all types of inspections at commercial, residential, student, and other property types. Clients can easily create custom inspection templates to suit unique business needs, assign inspections based on user-defined criteria, view detailed reports on inspection history, and more. This course will cover the setup and use of this module.

Investment Accounting – Capital Calls and YSR Notices (MA350)

This course will cover how to manage Investment Capital Transactions with investors within Voyager. We will cover the various components of setup and demonstrate examples of how to manage contributions and distrubutions. The class will also include how to generate investor notices.

Fixed Assets (MM157)

This course details the Yardi Fixed Assets module. The instructor will review proper module setup and usage, including how to create fixed assets and how to calculate, post, and report on depreciation.

Automated Tasks & Notifications (TE245)

Learn how to set up automated email notifications and tasks based on critical dates or defined criteria. You can automate emails to any contact in the system, including tenants, vendors, owners, and employees. This Voyager feature displays assigned tasks on the user's dashboard calendar and lets you track the completion date for those tasks.


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Budgeting & Forecasting Overview (MB120)

This class will include a high-level overview of the Advanced Budgeting & Forecasting module. We will walk through common budgeting processes as well as discuss best practices for the module. Topics will include an overview of how to manipulate your commercial revenue forecast, functions to help you gain efficiencies in forecasting expenses, features that will help you pull mortgage and job information into your budget, and will wrap up with some common reports.

Overview of General Accounting Features (AC101)

This course is an overview of the financial features that are available in Voyager. After a brief presentation that covers these options, we will open the course to a question and answer session that is focussed on helping users streamline financial operations.

Y A S C 2 0 1 7ENTERTAINMENT

Wednesday 15th

Gala Dinner – AmsterdamAfterparty – Panorama Deck

19:30-

00:00

Gala Dinner

Afterparty

Feat. a spectacular light and sound entertainment treat, prizes and fun!

Stay energised with a leading Benelux and international DJ performance

Your YASC Team

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Executive Management & Presenters

Presenters

Executive Management Team

Ronald Weevers Vice President

Octavian Anghelescu RE050, RE380, RE580

Adriana Bradley CM160, MM157

Pete Baker EL040, RT130, TE170

Neal Gemassmer Vice President

Cassandra Bordeanu AC210, AC320, TE240, TE320

Fay Chester AC280, MA250, MA330, MB210, MB240

Kevin Yardi Vice President

Emma Beaver EW250, EW260 MI110, MR110, RM116, RM255

Rob Teel Senior Vice President

Sander Bozuwa MB120

Edwin Cool TE020

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Presenters

David La Gue TE030

Fred Jordaan EP250, EW250, EW260, MI110, MR110

Sean Novibi CM171, CM240, CM341, CM371, RT320

Simona Lehene AC132, AC135, AC201

Hayley McMahon AC220, CF360, RE070

Alan Obee MC101, MC310

Graham Pierce AC265, CM370, MA360

Marian Pop RE111, RE170, RE610

Diederick de Roo RT130, TE030, TE170

Adina Radu CM160, MM157, RM116, RM255

Joop Schaareman AC132, RT065

Akshai Roa EP070, EP320

Doug Dion CM171, CM240, CM341, CM371, RT320, TE060

Neal Gemassmer Opening Session, CM063

Richard Gerritsen TE200

Ioana Gherga TE020

Diana Girbe CM250, CM320, TE130, TE245

Mike Hobbs AC350, CM155, CM360, EP150

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Presenters

Ruben Schlichting AC101, MC101, MM120, MC310 MM320

Karen Stevenson ABFFG, EL040

Rob Teel Opening Session, CM050, CM063

Alexander de Vries CM140, EP070, MM320

Gert-Jan Veerman MA315, MA350

Nick Trevor RT221

Hielko van der Weit RT070

Ronald Weevers Opening Session, RT065, RT070, RT221

Sandor Varga RE050, RE505, RE540

Barry Sharpnack ABFFG, MB120, MB210, MB240

Sheryl Yankovich MA030

Kevin Yardi Opening Session, CM050, TE060

Your YASC Team

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Event Management

Event Management Team

Sam Galer Event Coordinator

Gary Murray Cloud Services

Monique Haanstra Event Coordinator(Dutch speaking)

Martin Gedny Event Coordinator

Tony Byrne Client Services

Jeroen Duijn Lab Coordinator

Edwin Cool Cloud Services(Dutch speaking)

Julia Weikel Event Coordinator(German speaking)

Hannah Holmes Event Coordinator

Thank you for attending YASC 2017

We look forward to seeing you next year!

#YASC2017

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